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Newspaper
Wheeling Sunday Register
Location
Wheeling, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1893
Page
7
A wide survey of women in culture, publishing, and domestic crafts notes their impact in literature, fashion, and business. It highlights Mrs George Mere dith’s critique of female virtue, practical cookery tips, fashion and household innovations, and examples of women leading enterprises, craftsmanship, and public service across the English speaking world.
Special Correspondence from Wasmixoron reports Mr. Cleveland praising John Carlisle as the greatest man in America and future cabinet plans. The piece also covers Democratic cabinet jockeying, Mrs Carlisle’s warnings, and potential successors like Judge Walter Gresham and James Carter, plus Dan Lamont’s return.
At Chicago Hall Parker Sir asks what he means by stepping on a woman's foot. The New Yorker Thunderation responds with a defiant aside about flight, challenging the other man and punctuating a tense exchange.
A Special Correspondent details Manhattan’s winter morning crowds, the Brooklyn Bridge flow, and the desperate need for rapid transit. Thousands carry the city’s industrial army as commuters pour from all boroughs and suburbs to daily tasks. The report notes crowding, platform crush, and a transit commission debate, urging immediate, faster intramural transit to keep New York’s population working.
A New York inquiry highlights vast city and suburban transit use. Annual riders approach 459 million within city limits, about 1.25 million daily. Elevated lines account for over 40 percent, with roughly 300,000 riders per day. 1902 figures pending. 1891 total 408,063,266.
Estimates show daily riders at about 508132 with two thirds commuting as work traffic, while elevated lines use 43, etc. The city’s 323 miles of elevated tracks and 208 miles of surface rail carry thousands of cars and horses, with tens of thousands employed in moving people. Suburban traffic adds hundreds of thousands more commuters arriving by rail and ferry, needing vast railroad capacity to support livelihoods.
A visitor to New York estimates nearly 47 000 people rely on passenger travel to and from the city plus related trades. He calculates a 90 mile train length and a parade line 7.5 miles long if 48 000 people formed a marching procession, illustrating the scale of metropolitan railroad activity.
A long, garbled quotation extols the high character of instrumental offerings by Drs Copeland Bell and Davis, praising their witnesses as worthy citizens. The text references full names and addresses, mentions Martin's job, and notes a local figure named Love, with scattered lines about street names and meetings, concluding with a personal boast.
The readable fragments describe themes of control and moral exhaustion, with scattered references to remedies and treatment. The text hints at conflict between authority and personal wellbeing, mentioning cleansing and insistence on virtue, but remains largely unclear and non-specific.
The Copeland Medical Institute reports a series of ailments described as Epeptalites affecting the Rye area with symptoms in the throat lungs stomach and stomach area. Additional notes mention office hours Sunday and a heme related reference.
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